Hackathon for Transparency and Open Data
The Hackathon for Transparency and Open Data is part of Guatemala's plans for an e-government. For the realization of this participatory initiative, young Guatemalans were summoned to develop apps that could be used by citizens, allowing them to access government data. During the Hackathon, the participants had access to the list of fuel prices and gas stations in the metropolitan area, which was facilitated by the Ministry of Energy and Mines; the Ministry of Health's 2012-2013 vaccination lists, with the names of children and vaccines; the list of Educational Centers of the Ministry of Education, with geographical data, graduated students, etc.; the retirement list of the Ministry of Public Finance; the data of agrochemicals and food products export licenses from the Ministry of Agriculture; and labor permits for foreigners from the Ministry of Labor. The calling was public and the data were released by some Ministries of the Republic.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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